EPUB does not have the concept oif Series as part of the specification!. As a result the readers do not have the concept either.

I am not sure why you are not getting them in Series order on your reader using calibre though? If you send them all to the Device at the same time then Calibre should create the collection corresponding to the series in the series number order. Any sent later are simply added on the end. so maybe this is what you are experiencing?

I'm converting books to epub format that belong to part of a series. When I open them up on the reader (Sony PRS-300) I want to see them listed in their correct volume order.

At the moment, I'm doing this by titling:

001 An Outline of Genesis
002 An Outline of Exodus

and I have to sort them in Calibre by clicking on the title column, then they will appear in this order on the reader.

Kovid's Series feature is quite nice, but it creates an extra catalog, and doesn't sort the titles by their volume number.

Does anyone know if EPUB has this Series/VolumeNo feature, and where the Sony PRS-300 will recognise and sort accordingly?

Kind regards,
Craig

Use the Series feature of Calibre. Sort by series (now they're in series order) prior to sending them to your device, then highlight the entire series and send it enmass to your device. Now on your reader, inside that collection, they will be in series order.

Use the Series feature of Calibre. Sort by series (now they're in series order) prior to sending them to your device, then highlight the entire series and send it enmass to your device. Now on your reader, inside that collection, they will be in series order.

I have written a program to convert 300 books (5 series containing between 20 and 100 volumes). I am still honing the software, making tweaks etc, which means that if I were to use Calibre's wonderful feature (which does work by the way) I would have to manually specify the Series/Volume on loading.

Is there a way to access the Calibre database programmatically, and add books + Calibre metadata?